On 11/29/05, Eben King <eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Eben King wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, michael hast wrote:
> >
> > > Robert Snyder wrote:
> > >
> > > > It all depends on what you are looking to emulate on the ppc
> platform
> > > >
> > > > OSX/other nix based OSes then you cant beat PearPC which does run
> > > > faster than my 400mhz G3 B/W system which runs OSX 10.4 just fine.
> > > > There have been improvements too it and my copy of pear pc with all
> > > > the tweaks and such boots with in 2-3 minutes a little slower than
> my
> > > > 400mhz the biggest problem is video draw rates. There is a on going
> > > > discussion in how you could treat the OSX desktop as a 3d enviroment
> > > > and pass opengl calls to the host system for faster preformance.
> > > >
> > > > On 11/28/05, *Eben King* <eben1@tampabay.rr.com
> > > > <mailto:eben1@tampabay.rr.com>> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > PearPC http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/ works, but it's
> > > > glacial. I'm talking, half an hour to boot on a 2GHz x86.
> > > >
> > > Well, those are a couple of completely different reviews of the same
> > > app! Controversy means it's probably worth looking at! :-)
> >
> > Yeah, maybe it's improved since I tried, or maybe my installation was
> > hosed, or maybe OS X 10.2 doesn't get along with PearPC.
>
> OK, I decided to try PearPC again. Unfortunately, I could not get it to
> boot, on either the MacOS X 10.2 installation DVD or the Yellow Dog Linux
> CDs. With MacOSX, when I have prom_env_machargs = "-v", it
> complains about /dev/rdisk1s1s2 having overlapping extent allocation (What
> device is that anyhow?), does
> something akin to an fsck, fails and exits (the HD is still
> untouched). From
> http://wiki.pearpc.net/index.php/Files:BasicConfigurationFile:
>
> ## machargs: set to "-v" to get a verbose startup. this will
> ## often fail in Mac OS X 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4.
>
> So I disabled it, just for kicks. Still fails, in about the same time,
> only
> now I can't see what it's doing. In either case, the executable prints
> out
> (after the GPL thing)
>
> AuthenticAMD
> CMOV MMX SSE
> [CPU/MMU] new pagetable: sdr1 = 0x00300003
> [CPU/MMU] new pagetable: sdr1 accepted
> [CPU/MMU] number of pages: 2^15 pagetable_start: 0x00300000 size: 2^18
> [CPU/CPU] execution started at 01c00cb0
> [CPU/MMU] new pagetable: sdr1 = 0x0100003f
> [CPU/MMU] new pagetable: sdr1 accepted
> [CPU/MMU] number of pages: 2^19 pagetable_start: 0x01000000 size: 2^22
> [IO/CUDA] <Warning> reset!
>
> I've done this before, so it should work, but it doesn't. Any ideas why
> not?
>
> Wy config file (minus the comments) is:
>
> ppc_start_resolution = "1400x1050x15"
> redraw_interval_msec = 40
> key_toggle_mouse_grab = "F12"
> key_toggle_full_screen = "Alt+Return"
> prom_bootmethod = "select"
> prom_env_machargs = "-v"
> prom_driver_graphic = "/mnt/auto/scratch/PearPC/video.x"
> memory_size=0x20000000
> pci_ide0_master_installed = 1
> pci_ide0_master_image = "/mnt/auto/scratch/PearPC/mac-os-x.img"
> pci_ide0_slave_installed = 1
> pci_ide0_slave_image = "/mnt/auto/scratch/mac-os-x.iso"
> pci_usb_installed = 0
> nvram_file = "/mnt/auto/scratch/PearPC/nvram"
>
> Yes, the dir stays mounted, as it's my cwd.
>
> [eben@pc PearPC]$ ls -l /mnt/auto/scratch/PearPC/video.x
> /mnt/auto/scratch/PearPC/mac-os-x.img /mnt/auto/scratch/mac-os-x.iso/mnt/auto/scratch/PearPC/nvram
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 eben eben 2.1G Jan 2 2005
> /mnt/auto/scratch/mac-os-x.iso
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 eben eben 3.0G Nov 29 11:52
> /mnt/auto/scratch/PearPC/mac-os-x.img
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 eben eben 8.0K Nov 29 12:21
> /mnt/auto/scratch/PearPC/nvram
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 eben eben 12K Nov 29 11:36
> /mnt/auto/scratch/PearPC/video.x*
>
> That video.x needn't be executable (I think), but that's the way it came
> out
> of the compiler.
And where did you pull the source from the cvs is almost never stable and
ofter leads to bugs like that. also have you tried a more senseable res size
like 800x600
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